The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-04-24
ABOUT woMM.

Elk Empress Eugene talks of coming
20 America.
Kate Field is . good horsewoman, and
very fond of riding.
Five ladies are elected to The CITY eoup-
Gil in Syracuse, Kansas.
Thirty different woman suffrage tracts
Sample copies) sent postpaid for ten
cents. Address WoMA2s's JoUGxAL. Bos-
ton, Mass.
s.. B. Chistenden has given 500. eco to
Yale College for new library building.
On condition that the library shall be open
to women.
In the Pennsylvania Senate, April 10.
the joint resolution submitting Woman
Suffrage Constitutional amendment was
Hually passed; years, 81. nays, IS
Many California women cnltiTate fruit
farms, themselves doing much of the
work, picking, packiog, raisin-making.
and canning fruit. CrYstallized figs. and
apricots are the products Of women 5
labor, as well as jellies, jarRs, marmalade,
which are sent all over the world.
Miss Grace Fl. Hodge, the new woman
school commissioner of New York, is the
moving spirit of the of the working girls
guilds in that city, which number at
least 5000 members. There are six or
eight OF the guilds, and all Of them have
sprung up during the past three years.
Ia recent address to graduates Of the
Maryland faculty of physics, Col. III. Kyd
Douglas said: "a young physicians frst
prescription should be for himself--a wife
to be taken Immediately. Doctors must
be sober and serious, and there is nothing
SO likely to make them so as an early mar
fiage.
The French Senate has passed a law
that in cases Of separation between hus-
band and wife, the wife shall be restored
to her civil rights without having in future
to lecur TO the authorization of her
husband. If the Chamber of Deputies
CONFIRMS this action, a very serious and
Illuminating disability will be removed
Mrs. Florence Kelly Wischnewetsky, a
daughter Of JIa5sge- W D. Kelly, CT Penn
sylvania, has been put in charge Of
series of publications to be issued as the
New York Labor Library, aud intended
te supply economic literature for working
people. She is graduate of Cornell aud
Zurich, and has BEN for some years much
interested in political economy.
DIR. Lucy NJ Hall physician of vassar,
has kept list of the number of DAYS each
girl has been absent from illness during
the year, and compared it with simil +
record Kept Of the young men at Amherst
College She finds that the girls are not
a ssIt from illness nearly SO much as the
young men. Women can stanI a fonr
years course of severe study as well as
tEeir brothers.
Miss Parloa is a brave woman. At one
of her cooking classes. lately, something
slipred, and boi ing water ian over her
hands The pupils cried out; tie lee urer
did not change muscle. She sprinkled
the burns with s da, bandaged them with
her handkerchief, and went on with the
lesson, her hands swelling into puffy balls
OF pain Leforo her bearers eyes, but not
dis, raetiDg her from her lecture, or caus-
ing moments stoppage in her running
fire of jokes.
Mrs. George, wife of the celebrated au-
thor OF Progress and Poverty is a
woman of domestic tastes, devoted to her
husband aud their fsur children. She is
a small, plump, CHEEKY woman, who
never gels down hearted. rnd people who
know them we'll say that but for her uu
tagging devotion and enthusiastic belief
in him, Henry George would never have
been able to come tfiumphantly through
the long PERIOD of straitened means and
hard work which preceded his success
Il is no wonder tnat he believes a woman
suffrage.